Jordan De La Sierra ~ Gymnosphere: Song of the Rose

“Before new age hit terra firma at the dawn of the 1980s, the classically-trained Bay Area composer Jordan De La Sierra’s consciousness soared with cosmic concepts. A student of Terry Riley and La Monte Young’s “pure sound with shape” school of piano tuning, De La Sierra was not confined by Bach’s Western, “well tempered” tuning,Continue reading “Jordan De La Sierra ~ Gymnosphere: Song of the Rose”

V/A ~ Kazbek

“This collection acts as something of a Bootleg Series companion to the Mountains of Tongues LP and features material from the same sessions as well as more recent recordings from June and July 2014. The tapes are organised – somewhat loosely – organically (one tape each of vocals, wind instrumentation, instrumental strings and ensemble performances)Continue reading “V/A ~ Kazbek”

Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra ~ The Night of the Purple Moon

“The Night of the Purple Moon, recorded and released in 1970, has a vague flavor of the prevailing psychedelic zeitgeist of the late 1960s. That’s due to the presence of two electronic keyboards that were popular with psych bands: the Rock-Si-Chord (commonly misspelled Rocksichord) and the Minimoog. (…) Ra owned an early custom Minimoog (aContinue reading “Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra ~ The Night of the Purple Moon”